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Sports and Nationalism in Latin/O America - 9781137487186

Un libro in lingua di L'Hoeste Hector Fernandez (EDT) Irwin Robert McKee (EDT) Poblete Juan (EDT) edito da Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Sports and nationalism are two forms of imagining and actively constructing the connections that justify and explain belonging to a community. In fact, sports could be said to be one of the key modern terrains for the habitualization of nationalism. However, as practices involving diverse actors in historically and culturally specific contexts, they are also often occasions for the questioning of hegemonic national narratives and even for the emergence of alternative imaginings of supra or sub-national belonging. This collection interrogates sports in Latin America precisely as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy, media representations, and sports play itself by professionals, national teams and amateurs) of inclusion and exclusion. The book explores the complexities of these practices across a range of sports (soccer, baseball, cycling, basketball, tennis, boxing, surfing, field hockey, swimming, etc.) and national spaces (Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica, Peru, USA, etc.). Finally, it looks at how factors such as gender, (dis)ability, migration, and globalization complicate notions of nation engendered through sports.

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